Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book presents a new theory of onsets, arguing for their fundamental role in the structure of language.

Anger is one of the basic emotions of human emotional experience, informing and guiding many of our choices and actions.

Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles, such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspective.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Investigation into the Interaction between the Indefinites and Negation" verfügbar.

Emergence of Korean English explores the dynamic nature of emerging Korean English and its impact on Korean society, culture, and identity.

This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances.

A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of a unidirectional syntax-phonology relationship.

Inhalt:Siglo XV – Siglo XIX:María Luisa Calero Vaquera y Alfonso Zamorano Aguilar: El término "análisis" en las gramáticas de la tradición hispánica – estudio metalingüístico Vera Eilers: La gramática española en el siglo XIX – gramáticos en diálogo María José García Folgado y Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez: El desarrollo del pensamiento lingüístico en la enseñanza.

The present volume reproduces two still unsurpassed accounts of the flourish and eventual decline of Hebrew linguistic scholarship covering the period from the 10th to the 16th century, at a time when Christian scholars and theologians - as a result of the Reformation with its emphasis on the authority of the Bible - began to study Hebrew.

This book traces the spread of the perfect tense across Europe, demonstrating the crucial role of language contact.

This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wu, Hakka, Min and Cantonese.

First Published in 2004.

This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across languages.

An engaging and fresh take on the rules and politics of English grammar, written in lively prose.

This book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: "e;Altaic"e;) in previous research.

Transformational syntax is an analytic technique of grammatical description which has exciting psychological and philosophical ramifications inspiring creative research into the conceptual powers and behaviour of man.

This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional "e;functional-cognitive space"e; within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located.

After reviewing, from a grammaticalization perspective, the main stages in the evolution of Italian object clitic pronouns, the book discusses the distinctive morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features of Italian clitics.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that presents a comprehensive syntactical picture of Singapore Mandarin, this title analyses various expressions relating to number, quantity, time and place, composite sentences and the characteristics and standardisation of Singapore Mandarin.

This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

This original volume provides the first state-of-the-art overview of research on pronouns in the 21st century.

This volume provides a broad introduction to Chinese linguistics, offering an accessible synthesis of the most relevant topics in the field.

The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies.

A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations.

This dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in syntax and morphology.

Researchers in critical discourse analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse.

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

This book reflects on key questions of enduring interest on the nature of syntax, bringing together Grant Goodall's previous publications and new work exploring how syntactic representations are structured and the affordances of experimental techniques in studying them.

First Published in 1993.

First published in 1983, this book examines anaphora - a central issue in linguistic theory as it lies at the crossroads of several major problems.

This book examines one of the allegedly unique features of human language: structure sensitivity.

First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English.

This book posits a universal syntactic constraint (FPC) for code switching, using as its basis a study of different types of code-switching between French, Moroccan Arabic and Standard Arabic in a language contact situation.